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Re: caching name resolved info?

From: Dirk Manske <dmanske_at_nettraffic.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:25:25 +0100

Hallo,

[previously send to privat address, sorry. "Reply-To: ..." is
missing in mail from mailinglist]

> Hey experts!
>
> What would be the pros and cons for libcurl to cache/store name info for
> already resolved host names?

Name caching is a good and usefull idea. But disabling of this feature
should be possible, because round robin dns.
May be curl should caching all ip of a hostname and implementing
an internal round robin.
And the name cache should be flushable.

Ahoi,
Dirk
Received on 2001-11-02